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Equality Unit’s videos on social injustices encourage engagement
The Equality Unit (EqU) at Stellenbosch University (SU) has embarked on a visual arts social media project that addresses unfair discrimination and harassment, HIV/Aids, and other social injustices. This interactive and inclusive project...
International recognition for research on penguins’ parasites
Dr Marcela Espinaze, a postdoctoral fellow in biomathematics at Stellenbosch University, has been selected by Cambridge University Press' journal Parasitology for the 2020 Early Career Researcher award for the best paper published in the...
Covid-19 shows us yet again: Don’t mess with Mother Nature
Rushed research in the time of pandemic panic has led to questionable research and conspiracy theories about the origin of the virus – but genetic analysis of the virus has shown that it is highly unlikely that it originated in a lab...
SU holds first virtual staff assembly
Stellenbosch University (SU) has “achieved a lot in a short space of time", and as staff “we have also learnt a lot together", which has helped SU move forward during this unprecedented time. This was the message from SU's Rector and Vice...
Wear your mask, says SU
“Mask wearing is not just about protecting yourself. It is also about protecting others, about being a responsible citizen and about looking out for those most at risk of serious consequences from COVID-19," said Prof Stan du Plessis...
Engineering's Dean, Prof Wikus van Niekerk, receives exceptional honour
The Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Stellenbosch University, Prof Wikus van Niekerk, received the distinguished honour to be elected an Honorary Fellow of the South African Institution of Mechanical Engineers (SAIMechE). SAIMechE is...
#WomenofSU: Advancing gender equality and levelling the playing field for women in the workplace
Women continue to get the short end of the stick in the workplace. Through her research, Prof Anita Bosch, holder of the Women at Work Research Chair at the University of Stellenbosch Business School, helps advance gender equality and...
Virtual Café discussion addresses unconscious bias in society
In recent months, amidst a global coronavirus pandemic, the persistence of structural racism and bias in all spheres of society came under the spotlight once again through the #BlackLivesMatter movement. In an effort to address some of the...
Mathematics and gender, nanofibres and immunity against COVID-19
The Faculty of Science has a number of events planned for National Science Week which this year is taking place from 27 July to 31 August. South Africa's National Science Week (NSW) is an annual celebration of science, engineering and...
Fogarty grant will help put spotlight on TB meningitis in children
Dr Karen du Preez, a clinical researcher with the Paediatric TB Research Programme at the Desmond Tutu TB Centre, recently received a grant of nearly R9 million ($540 000) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States...